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The lure of Medjugorje
By
deacon greg kandra
Well, the papal preacher isn’t visiting Medjugorje, but a lot of other people are. This morning’s Washington Post has an overview of where modern pilgrims are headed –and why. And one of their leading destinations is that little town in the Croatian hillside: People have been coming to this rocky slope since June 24, 1981,…
Is VOTF going pffft?
By
deacon greg kandra
That seems to be the gist of this piece in the New York Times from over the weekend. The controversial lay group, Voice of the Faithful, blossomed amid all the, um, fertilizer that piled up during the priest sex scandals in 2002. But the Voice has lately been all but mute. And now they’re running…
Giving television a saintly Sheen
By
deacon greg kandra
Not too long ago, they ripped up the old carpeting in the pulpit of my parish church in Queens. The rug was almost threadbare, and the workers determined it must have been the original stuff, put down in the early 1940’s. I told someone they should have saved the carpet and cut it up to…
Consider yourself warned
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Cover your children’s eyes. I’m told: this rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: sex (2x) steal (1x) Gasp.
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